Described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large to support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership Survey and James Buchanan always falls at the bottom of the list as the worst leader in american president ial history. How would you characterize his leadership skill
Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
Nevada president has a six point lead in pennsylvania. The Trump Campaign has declared victory and claimed pennsylvanias 20 electoral votes. President trump is ahead of joe biden by more than 1 in north carolina. And the president is leading biden by about 1 1 2 in georgia. The fox news decision desk says joe biden won the state of arizona and its 11 electoral votes but the Trump Campaign is adamant that they will protect the integrity of the election and they will be able to declare victory in arizona by the end of this week. Just over 600,000 votes remain to be counted. The president is behind only 93,000 votes there. President trump expressing his frustration with the delay in states calling many of those races last night after results showed him leading in a number of those states. Here is what President Trump said earlier today. President trump this is a fraud on the American Public. This is an embarassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we di
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As a multitudeed of rational beings united by the common objects of their love. I want to repeat that because it is a complicated thought, but it is the best definition of a nation ive come across. A multitude of rational beings, driven by reason, react to facts, united by the common objects of their love. We love enough to sacrifice one for another. Weve had a lot of conversations wartime, thiss is is like pearl harbor and september 11. Actually it is not. There is a National Feeling that is analogous, but this is something the closest thing i can think of as an analogy is, this is as if we were all english men and women in london in 1940 during the blitz or when hitlers was firing rockets at london. And weall combatants didnt choose to be a combatant. My hope for the country is that. E learn from this pain as dr. King used to say, theres a way to bring good out of people. Hopefully what we learned is that we are all vulnerable, we are all human, and we need to find ways to be rationa